Word: caine
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Psychology: An Oedipus, Prometheus, Cain, expulsion, Joseph, Jacob, Jesus, or inferiority complex; a frustrated libido or an identity crisis...
...candidacy is dead, but those who refused to count her votes, our votes, live on. For what they did Monday they bear the curse of cain, the albatross, and the scarlet letter. They were born bureaucrats, and bureaucrats they will remain. May they be drowned in a pit of red tape and their death certificates notarized in quadruplicate. Christian Brannon
...years of Moses' life not covered by the Bible and he would create a motion picture story. We have tried faithfully to reproduce and annotate the text of the Bible." Christopher Fry apparently was not told this because, although the Bible gives no hint what instrument Cain used in killing Abel, the Fry Bible does. In showing the world's first fratricide, Fry has the psychotically jealous Cain pick up an ass's jawbone-si, si, Samson, an ass's jawbone-and bash Abel. The jawbone was custom-built out of hard rub ber. Cain missed...
...enjoys none of his duties so much as that of playing the indignant consumer. A man with the saucer eyes and eager fingers of a shopper ready to seize a bargain, he moves through Macy's like an avenging angel, fulfilling the dreams of every customer by raising Cain-and making his complaints stick...
...yesterday and done right. "I'm always an hour late, a dollar short, and behind schedule," he likes to say. As a young Congressman, Johnson handed out diplomas in a mythical "I Cain't Do It Club" to anyone who had let him down. And, according to Lady Bird, when things were not done as quickly or as well as Johnson wanted, "he used to get a rash on his hands...